I was driving home one Sunday night (tail end of a several hour journey) and popped on the radio, tuned to the local NPR. Turns out Sunday nights locally are occupied by this music block titled Alpha Rhythms, during which a wildly eclectic selection of ambient, electronic, trance and otherwise moody tracks are played. My mind was reeling: a Jerry Goldsmith track from First Blood followed by a Lindsey Stirling number, Danny Elfman music from freakin BEETLEJUICE, a wide array of trippy electronica I'd never heard before, and, lo and behold, all interspersed with a discerning selection of tracks from video games including Last of Us and CLOCK TOWER!

I've sat through plenty of stupid NPR fund drives on my way to work, but this is the first time I've considered actually giving them money.

Having a constant 30 FPS with no slowdowns is the best option when you are going for a cinematic experience.

The best option when going for a cinematic experience is to go to a fucking cinema.

One of the harshest criticisms which may be levied against a movie is that it is "like watching a video game." Well I got news for you, that's a two way street; if a game developer wants to make a "cinematic experience" they're in the wrong fucking business.

No hardware can run all software at 60fps. It's a physical impossibility. Developers have to make tradeoffs to get frames per second, and sometimes those tradeoffs aren't worth the extra frames, so they're sacrificed.

You're absolutely right. The only problem with that argument is Evil Within looks like shit. Not only that, but the ONLY OTHER games running id Tech 5 run at sixty fucking frames a second, ON CONSOLES.

I watched somebody play for the first hour and it looked bad. Slow as hell (mission: get dressed), bunch of pointless quicktime events (seriously? mashing X repeatedly three times in a row to pull a lever?), and the thing I'm most sick of in gaming, a bunch of fucking writing all over every wall. As if people have nothing better to do in a crisis than spraypaint cryptic messages left and right.

because there have been utility guys spray-painting the street for weeks to show where the water mains and such are buried, as apparently Consolidated Edison is going to be replacing all the gas lines soon, so we may be living that soothing jackhammer life for the foreseeable future.

They've been doing just that to the major five-lane road near me for months now. I hope you get settled in for the long haul.